Swap space

Chris F.A. Johnson chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 12 00:54:43 UTC 2009


On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Jason Carson wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I know the conventional wisdom with respect to swap space has always been
> to double your memory but I am about to build a system with 4 GB of
> memory. Do I really need an 8 GB swap space?

    No. I have 2GB RAM with ~1GB swap.

    With all the apps I regularly use open, I've never seen more than
    65MB swap used.

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